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Automating information extraction from form-like documents at scale is a pressing need due to its potential impact on automating business workflows across many industries like financial services, insurance, and healthcare. The key challenge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Beliz Gunel , Navneet Potti , Sandeep Tata , James B. Wendt , Marc Najork , Jing Xie

Process extraction from text is an important task of process discovery, for which various approaches have been developed in recent years. However, in contrast to other information extraction tasks, there is a lack of gold-standard corpora…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Patrizio Bellan , Han van der Aa , Mauro Dragoni , Chiara Ghidini , Simone Paolo Ponzetto

Information Extraction (IE) from the tables present in scientific articles is challenging due to complicated tabular representations and complex embedded text. This paper presents TabLeX, a large-scale benchmark dataset comprising table…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Harsh Desai , Pratik Kayal , Mayank Singh

Structural extraction of events within discourse is critical since it avails a deeper understanding of communication patterns and behavior trends. Event argument extraction (EAE), at the core of event-centric understanding, is the task of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Xinliang Frederick Zhang , Carter Blum , Temma Choji , Shalin Shah , Alakananda Vempala

Document layout analysis is essential for downstream tasks such as information retrieval, extraction, OCR, and digitization. However, existing large-scale datasets like PubLayNet and DocBank lack fine-grained region labels and multilingual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Oikantik Nath , Sahithi Kukkala , Mitesh Khapra , Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla

Span extraction, aiming to extract text spans (such as words or phrases) from plain texts, is a fundamental process in Information Extraction. Recent works introduce the label knowledge to enhance the text representation by formalizing the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Pan Yang , Xin Cong , Zhenyun Sun , Xingwu Liu

Existing summarization datasets come with two main drawbacks: (1) They tend to focus on overly exposed domains, such as news articles or wiki-like texts, and (2) are primarily monolingual, with few multilingual datasets. In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Dennis Aumiller , Ashish Chouhan , Michael Gertz

We present Legal Argument Reasoning (LAR), a novel task designed to evaluate the legal reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). The task requires selecting the correct next statement (from multiple choice options) in a chain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Odysseas S. Chlapanis , Dimitrios Galanis , Ion Androutsopoulos

In last decades, legal case search has received more and more attention. Legal practitioners need to work or enhance their efficiency by means of class case search. In the process of searching, legal practitioners often need the search…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Ruizhe Zhang , Qingyao Ai , Yueyue Wu , Yixiao Ma , Yiqun Liu

Information Extraction is a well-researched area of Natural Language Processing with applications in web search and question answering concerned with identifying entities and relationships between them as expressed in a given context,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Erin Macdonald , Denilson Barbosa

Novel contexts may often arise in complex querying scenarios such as in evidence-based medicine (EBM) involving biomedical literature, that may not explicitly refer to entities or canonical concept forms occurring in any fact- or rule-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Manirupa Das , Juanxi Li , Eric Fosler-Lussier , Simon Lin , Soheil Moosavinasab , Steve Rust , Yungui Huang , Rajiv Ramnath

Event extraction is an important work of medical text processing. According to the complex characteristics of medical text annotation, we use the end-to-end event extraction model to enhance the output formatting information of events.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Wei Feng , Ruochen Huang , Yun Yu , Huiting Sun , Yun Liu

We present data augmentation techniques for process extraction tasks in scientific publications. We cast the process extraction task as a sequence labeling task where we identify all the entities in a sentence and label them according to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Yuni Susanti

Legal case retrieval plays an important role for legal practitioners to effectively retrieve relevant cases given a query case. Most existing neural legal case retrieval models directly encode the whole legal text of a case to generate a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Yanran Tang , Ruihong Qiu , Xue Li

Event extraction for the clinical domain is an under-explored research area. The lack of training data along with the high volume of domain-specific terminologies with vague entity boundaries makes the task especially challenging. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Mingyu Derek Ma , Alexander K. Taylor , Wei Wang , Nanyun Peng

Document-level information extraction (IE) is a crucial task in natural language processing (NLP). This paper conducts a systematic review of recent document-level IE literature. In addition, we conduct a thorough error analysis with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Hanwen Zheng , Sijia Wang , Lifu Huang

Automatic extraction of narrative elements from text, combining narrative theories with computational models, has been receiving increasing attention over the last few years. Previous works have utilized the oral narrative theory by Labov…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Effi Levi , Guy Mor , Tamir Sheafer , Shaul R. Shenhav

Document Structured Extraction (DSE) aims to extract structured content from raw documents. Despite the emergence of numerous DSE systems, their unified evaluation remains inadequate, significantly hindering the field's advancement. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Zichao Li , Aizier Abulaiti , Yaojie Lu , Xuanang Chen , Jia Zheng , Hongyu Lin , Xianpei Han , Le Sun

We consider the task of Extreme Multi-Label Text Classification (XMTC) in the legal domain. We release a new dataset of 57k legislative documents from EURLEX, the European Union's public document database, annotated with concepts from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Ilias Chalkidis , Manos Fergadiotis , Prodromos Malakasiotis , Nikolaos Aletras , Ion Androutsopoulos

Document-level relation extraction (DocRE) aims to identify semantic labels among entities within a single document. One major challenge of DocRE is to dig decisive details regarding a specific entity pair from long text. However, in many…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Zhichao Duan , Xiuxing Li , Zhenyu Li , Zhuo Wang , Jianyong Wang